Geochemical laboratory

To analyze the contents of carbon, organic carbon, carbonate and sulphur in
bulk sediment samples, the institute houses a geochemical laboratory equipped
with a LECO CS-230 device at the Institute for Earth Sciences
(Heinrichstraße 26).

The geochemical proxy data are mainly used for paleoceanographic and
paleolimnologic research as indicators of surface-water productivity,
bottom-water oxygenation and riverine input.

Some current projects involving the LECO device:

Taxonomy and palecology of deep-sea foraminifers from the South
Atlantic

Millennial- to centennial-scale vegetation dynamics and surface water
productivity during the Late Miocene in and around Lake Pannon

Paleoceanography of the Central Paratethys during the Burdigalian
and Langhian

Integrated facies-analysis in the Oligocene and Early Miocene of the
North Alpine Foreland Basin

Paleonvironmental changes at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in the
Eastern Alps

Devonian reefs in Austria

If you are interested in the services of the laboratory please contact our
laboratory assistant Claudia Puschenjak:
claudia.puschenjak@uni-graz.at,Tel:
++43 316 380 8739.